What is an “obscene body part”?

If this body part is obscene, shouldn’t the author do the moral thing and remove his own?

The original 1989 SimCity box was a Rorschach test that cost Maxis $50k.

The cover was a Bakelite toy city simulator appliance with a red MONSTER disaster button, and a stompy T-Rex-looking creature waving over San Francisco on its TV screen.

Maxis never called it Godzilla on the box or in the game. Reviewers looked at the inkblot and saw Godzilla anyway.

Original monster cover:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SimHacker/MicropolisCore/m...

Revised cover after the lawsuit, monster swapped for a tornado (the MONSTER button survived):

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SimHacker/MicropolisCore/m...

In Feb 2024 I emailed Jeff Braun (Maxis co-founder/CEO) and asked what actually happened and how much Maxis had to pay. He wrote back the same day:

> Maxis was sued by Toho. We never referred to the name Godzilla, our monster on the box cover was a T-Rex looking character, but... a few magazine reviews called the monster, Godzilla. That was all it took. Toho called it "confusion in the marketplace". We paid $50k for Godzilla to go away. In all honesty, Toho liked Maxis, they said $50k was the minimum they take for Godzilla infringement.

All the box scans are in the Micropolis repo -- high res front, back with the "floods, earthquakes, fires, tornados, meltdowns and monsters" disaster list, side panels, and the platform variants, each with descriptions:

https://github.com/SimHacker/MicropolisCore/blob/main/docume...

Full email thread:

https://github.com/SimHacker/MicropolisCore/blob/main/docume...

The back of the box kept advertising monsters as a feature the same year the monster got lawyered off the front.

The function names in the code all refered to it like "MakeMonster()", but admittedly there was a "GOD" symbol in the code used to index the Monster sprite likw "GetSprite(GOD)", but Toho could not have know that, since it was a C preprocessor macro that was compiled away in the binary:

https://github.com/SimHacker/micropolis/blob/master/micropol...

They should have told them to gtfo and use Slackware then.

I was watching YouTube the other day and it was talking about Nirvana's Nevermind album, showed the album cover but with a square censoring part of it. In these cases it really is the censor themselves who is debauched. Reminds me of the classic story where Samuel Johnson left out some rude words from his dictionary. He was congratulated for having left them out, to which he is said to have quipped "I congratulate you on being able to look them up!"

This is why large companies should employ a few pedophiles to run things like this by them first. Long term, much savings.

Why should the govt remain nameless?

satanic

> Until we got a complaint from a government (who shall remain nameless for obvious reasons) that was upset with Windows 95 because it depicted naked children.

How dare you violate the government's exclusive right to naked children!

niceee

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